{"id":27152,"date":"2020-11-19T07:26:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T13:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27152"},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:13:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T21:13:18","slug":"if-nobody-else-remembers-it-did-it-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/19\/if-nobody-else-remembers-it-did-it-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"If Nobody Else Remembers It, Did It Happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas time in, what, 1984?  We&#8217;re at the house that my maternal grandmother rented in High Ridge right next to the firehouse.  My brother and I are lying on the floor watching MTV because my grandmother had cable, and we could watch MTV which would have been important to a twelve-year-old at the time.  We would have been visiting on a weekend, as we were still living with my aunt in St. Charles at the time.  The television is a big console unit that would be in our trailer too soon as my grandmother would pass away in a year or so.<\/p>\n<p>But this Christmas song comes on.  A science fiction sounding Christmas song.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e3cEOWIwDTI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re lying on the floor, and as it finishes up, my brother and I turn to each other and say, &#8220;Whoa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Mannheim Steamroller&#8217;s &#8220;Deck the Halls&#8221; from the then-new <em>Christmas<\/em> album.  I liked it so much that I bought it on audiocassette whilst I was in college; it would have been the first Christmas album I bought.<\/p>\n<p>As our latest inexpensive bookshelf system failed, again, after six or seven months of playing records, I&#8217;m not spinning platters for a second year in a row.  I&#8217;m reduced to listening to songs via Bluetooth.  Somewhere in the recent decades, my beautiful wife spent time ripping audiocassettes to MP3 files, so I have a copy of my old tape on my phone now, and I listened to it the other night and remembered how I was introduced to Mannheim Steamroller.<\/p>\n<p>So I asked my brother if he remembered it.<\/p>\n<p>He did not.<\/p>\n<p>So many of the things I remember, I am unsure if they actually happened like that or not.  And more and more, nobody can tell me differently.<\/p>\n<p>And as I&#8217;m getting older, my wife or increasingly my children ask me if I remember some incident that seemed more important to them than to me, and I cannot.  So I am a little gratified that other people my age&#8211;namely, my brother&#8211;cannot remember some things, too.<\/p>\n<p>As long as it actually happened.  I suppose it would be no consolation if it didn&#8217;t and I was just recalling it wholesale.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, I am thinking of reviewing some Christmas &#8220;albums&#8221; that I have in non-record format as the posts about the Christmas albums are popular, especially this time of year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas time in, what, 1984? We&#8217;re at the house that my maternal grandmother rented in High Ridge right next to the firehouse. My brother and I are lying on the floor watching MTV because my grandmother had cable, and we could watch MTV which would have been important to a twelve-year-old at the time. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27153,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27152\/revisions\/27153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}